meet the tlar editors

Christine Reichert, Editor

Christine Reichert, Director of Academic Services at Lourdes College since 1999, created the college’s first learning center, WIN (Windows for Intellectual Networking). It now services 95% of the student population for some type of academic support service. She teaches composition, oral communications, science and technical writing, literature, and film and tutors students in writing and study skill. In addition, she has 10 years experience as an award winning journalist, holding positions of writer, editor, and bureau chief. She has published articles and art exhibit reviews for the Ohio Arts Council publication, Dialogue, and has recently published in The Learning Assistance Review.  She is a member of the following professional associations: NCLCA, NTA, CRLA, and MLA. She is listed in Who’s Who in American Women 2006- present, Listed in Who’s Who in America 2005- present, and  Who’s Who in American Educators 2005-present. February, 2006, she was a delegate for the WSOS Great Lakes Consortium on a work force development junket to Tanzania, Africa, where she trained participates on creating learning centers.

Susan Shelangoskie, Managing Editor

Susan Shelangoskie has recently joined the Lourdes College faculty of Languages and Literature.  She received her Ph.D. in British and American Literature from the University of Utah in 2005, and her research focuses on technology, narrative, and culture from the Victorian era through the present.  Susan has presented scholarly work at a number of national and international venues on a variety of topics including Victorian literature and communication technologies, discourse analysis of metaphor in institutional power structures, and on-line teaching and learning.  In addition to her scholarly work in the humanities, Susan has had years of experience with new technologies and learning.  Before joining Lourdes, she worked for five years as an instructional designer and was instrumental in developing an on-line writing center to tutor distance learning students and in the creation of an on-line research literacy tutorial.  Susan is a member of professional organizations such as NCLCA, NAVSA, and MLA.